HEAVIEST TANKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 3

HEAVIEST TANKS

USED IN RUSSIAN ONSET ! . PLOUGHING THROUGH DEEP SNOW. NAZI RESISTANCE STIFFENING IN SOME AREAS. 'By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, January 11. I The Russians’ five columns in the Caucasus have recaptured in their stride more than 50 towns and villages in the past 36 hours. They are using the heaviest types of tanks, camouflaged white which are ploughing across the steepes through deep snow. Red Army forces continue to press )n in the more northward sectors, in spite of stiffer resistance on the approaches to the northern Donetz, the ast natural barrier before Rostov, lorth of the Don, General Eremen:o’s armies marching toward Salsk lave ccaptured several more villages. The Stockholm correspondent of The Times” says that along the Stalin-;rad-Tikhoretsk railway, the Russians ire meeting stronger resistance north if the Manich river and lakes, but process is steady along the lower Don, hough it has noticceably slowed up >ecause the Germans, greatly reinforc:d and plentifully armoured from Rosov to Kamenskaya, are determinedly ounter-attacking. NEW DRIVE FOR WAR FACTORY WORKERS & RECRUITS ! ' ’ IN GERMANY AND NEUTRAL COUNTRIES, STILL HARDER TIMES IN PROSPECT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 12. The “Daily Telegraph” correspondent nmewhere in Europe says that the lerman public is being prepared for a iithless new labour drive to secure inreased output and a greater flow of ecruits to the front. Big labour camps re being built near factories with nmmunal sleeping and eating arrangements, which fore-shadow the end for lany people of family life for the durlion of the war. Neutral countries are being combed )r German citizens. The Germans are Inding special doctors to re-examine jtizens in neutral countries previousr found unfit. The “Muenchen Neuste Nachrichten” warns that working nd living conditions will be imposed • bcompanied by “hard and almost unearable restrictions on the individual i favour of u.e nation’s life.”